This coyote was one I came upon during a “photo safari” I did one of the days while an Artist in Residence at the Grand Canyon National Park.  I’m from Prescott, so I see coyotes all the time, but NEVER have I seen one this big and healthy!  He came within 30 feet of me [...]

Wildlife Images Murals and Paintings Wildlife Images is a company in Scottsdale that does big game award winning taxidermy, some of the best in the world.  To see their website, click HERE.  Many of their clients, from all over the world have game rooms set up to display their animals in what appears to be [...]

This big guy was part of the booty I gathered on my photo safari while an Artist in Residence at the Grand Canyon Nat’l  Park.  One day I took a day off from painting my mural at the Shrine of the Ages and took my camera, car and roomate and just photographed all we saw! [...]

This is Craig’s Leopard.  Craig is the owner of Wildlife Images in Scottsdale AZ.  I love working with Wildlife Images because I have the MOST fabulous access to nearly any kind of animal I want.  Not only to photograph how I like in the lighting I like, but to actually touch the animals and know [...]

This is a painting of 2 hunters, a father and daughter team.  There is a good story to this painting.  This man’s wife had been saving and saving to give her husband the gift of his dreams, to go hunt a lion in Africa.  She gave him the gift for his birthday, but before they [...]

This is an elephant, on elephant.   Wildlife Images wanted me to practice on some elephant skin for future paintings of the like so they gave me some scrap elephant to take home.  It was JUST NASTY.  It stunk my car up big time. I had to hang my head out of the car to [...]

Kolb Studio is located at the top of the Bright Angel Trail at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.  It was sold and is in the permanent collection of the Grand Canyon Association.  (see below painting for more of the story!) The idea for the title of this painting came from one of the [...]